Raynford Avery Humphrey (born January 8, 1986), better known by his stage name Preme ( ; formerly P Reign), is a Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He was formerly signed to The Blueprint Group (BPG) and

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. He is currently signed to

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, in conjunction with his own record label Reps Ups Entertainment, which is also in a joint-venture record deal with

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and a joint-venture publishing deal with

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Career

Preme, also known as The King, the King of Da North, released his debut solo single in 2008 entitled "You Know I'm Fly", which topped the

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Canadian interactive music channel. His follow-up singles are "Money in My Pocket" (2009) and "In My Hood" (2010), produced by T-Minus. He is known as Preme because of his

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, Preme being a changed spelling of "preemie", which is slang for premature.

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, and Reign all toured with

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on his

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across North America. Reign performed as an opening act. Due to legal troubles at the time, Reign was not able to cross into the United States and thus toured only in Canadian cities.

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's big international hit " Alone Again" features P Reign. The single was a hit in Canada and many European charts and reached number 2 on

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. Canadian band Hedley's hit "Invincible" taken from their album '' Storms'' features P Reign. The single released August 23, 2011 reached number 9 on

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and was certified double platinum. ''The Canadian Dream'' is his debut mixtape and was released in early 2008. His sophomore mixtape is called ''When It Reigns It Pours'' and was released on November 1, 2010. His third mixtape was to be called ''True Kings Don't Die'' but was changed to ''Dear America'' and its release date was scheduled for July 4, 2013 but was postponed and released under Sony/RCA as an EP. He also still release a mixtape a week later with additional songs also called Dear America. ''Billboard'' magazine reported in March 2013 that P Reign is collaborating with rapper

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for the next release "We Them Niggas" that was a part of P Reign's ''Dear America'' EP. P Reign is also collaborating with artists such as

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and Drake. The EP was finally released on September 9, 2014. His song "Realest in the City" featuring Meek Mill and PartyNextDoor reached #1 on ''

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''s "Emerging Artists" chart.

Personal life

Preme has a son who was born in 2006. In 2008, Reign was charged with nine counts of weapons possession charges after Toronto Police found three loaded handguns in the backseat of his leased Cadillac. He was acquitted of all charges on May 30, 2011. Preme referenced this on the unofficial remix to the song "Us" by

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rapping, "Drizzy dropped a hundred on my lawyer and I beat the case!" Preme is close friends with fellow Torontonian rapper

and both have alluded to this on respective tracks. In the song "Intro" of his second mixtape, Reign raps "Shout out to Drizzy

, yeah that's my lil' bro / before the deal, we gettin' change like the corner store."

raps in the remake to Big Page's single "I'm Still Fly", "My brother P Reign knows we fuck with the same hoes / Plus he taught me how to spot an officer in plain clothes." Most recently, the two would collaborate (along with Southern rapper

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) on the single "DnF" from Reign's ''Dear America EP''.

Discography: Preme

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

As featured artist

Discography: P. Reign

Extended plays

*2014: ''Dear America EP''

Mixtapes

*2008: ''The Canadian Dream'' *2010: ''When It Reigns It Pours'' *2014: ''Dear America'' *2015: ''Off the Books''

Singles

As lead artist

As featured artist

Guest appearances

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Preme Twitter
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